Some Kitchen Lighting Enlightening
Installing kitchen lighting is a task you probably don’t undertake too often, but its not as difficult as you might fear, providing you follow some basic rules.
Interior lighting is divided into three categories: ambient lighting, task lighting, and accent lighting and, just like other rooms in your home, the kitchen needs a well thought out combination of all three.
Ambient Lighting in a kitchen should be as close as possible to daylight and the best lighting for this is halogen; low voltage halogen kitchen lighting are ideal as halogen lighting is the closest artificial light to natural daylight. A row of recessed halogen lights will also go part way to your requirement for task lighting, because they give good, direct light. Rather than space them evenly, like an airport runway, place them over the areas where you need direct lighting the sink and cooker, for example. Another benefit of recessed lights is that they don’t get greasy like pendant lights.
Again, thinking about task lighting, compact fluorescent strips or LED strips under wall units will throw essential light onto your work surfaces. Placing compact fluorescent strips or LED kitchen lighting on the wall above your wall cabinets, on the other hand, will add to your accent lighting. If you paint the ceiling white, this will also add to your ambient lighting because the light from the strips will be reflected from the ceiling and bounced back into the room.
If you’re not up for the wiring job involved in putting in recessed lights, a good alternative is a track of directional halogen lamps. This will give you ambient lighting and task lighting with no rewiring needed!
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